Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Here's Two versions of something I imagined, designed & drew, then glued together out of clay and antique type-writer parts, then photographed, printed out, drew and painted over the photo of it, one more time. Yeah. i know. Over-worked much?

Regardless of the fact there's no right or wrong answer, I get a lot of help from the insightful feed back you guys provide.

Thursday, May 25, 2017

The original art for this cover is pretty small, maybe 8 x 10, so i'm surprised it holds up to being blown up to original art sized. Images blown up bigger than their normal size, usually look much worse.

Probably the biggest difference is how, (unlike the majority of artists now-a-days), is how little i use digital tablets to draw with. Nothing against them, digital art is awesome and way more versatile.

I hear lots of digital comic artists don't even have original art to sell anymore. I wonder if buying original art will totally disappear someday?

Also weird how the old comic companies used to throw out Original Comic Art to make room for office space. I wonder if we 'hand drawn' comic artists are almost like dinosaurs?

Still have that same shelf i posted two days ago... getting a little messier. Funny how the more tools you have to draw with,

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Here's a page from Batman Secrets, ( the original art of which, will be collected in THIS Gallery Edition. )

This page is interesting because the top panel was done on recyclable brown paper. Pops nicely against the white. It's not the his fault, but i forgot to tell the colorist to leave the brown panel uncolored, so the intended effect was kinda lost.

Sunday, May 7, 2017

. . i showed John Layman some animals in my sketchbook, and these drawings are what helped shaped the Eleanor idea. Originally the bird had a hat and some goofy socks. And, for some weird reason . . a shopping cart.

John's first script had the Egret wearing a different hat in each scene, but somehow as it evolved, i found myself resisting that idea. Neither was right or wrong, just different.

So would have been a more cutesy and anthropomorphic book if we had dressed him up?

Thursday, May 4, 2017

. . many Projects I have are so close to done, they could even be published regardless of if i am around or not.

Art of Maxx book, Mysteries of the Trout a verse, ( either in book form, a series of short films), 101 Maxx covers, half a dozen others . . . . art's all scanned, finished text, etc.

Good news: they are all hand-crafted an piped in directly from my subconscious. Bad news: Not everything my subconscious pumps out is a golden egg. Lotta rotten eggs in there too.

Other Snags: my own personal procrastination means their all waiting in "stand-by" mode. Some are moldy, cobweb-ed, and dusty. But, however flawed or indulgent they are, or seem to me to be, i must have faith that most are probably worthy, of eventually, seeing the light of day.

Even if the masses may scratch their heads or even hate it, even if it just reaches that One Fan, who totally GETS it?

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Above: Circa 1890's Image of the Magic Trout

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Just like everyone else's blog, stuff about what's on my drawing table right now, old art I'll dig up or new stuff I'm toiling away on. All the usual self-absorbed artist crap. Sorry I've been such a hermit the last few years. Check back for updates every week or so.